The regulative regime of technology

A widespread belief across the social sciences construes the influence technology has on institutions and organizations as being heavily contingent on the characteristics of the social practices with which it gets entangled and the specific make-up of the contexts within which such entanglement occurs. Wittingly or unwittingly, this position is premised on a strong contrast between technologies, on the one hand, and the fabric of local practices and conditions in which technologies are embedded, on the other. The dominant picture is one where technology yields to the human skill or the capacity to bend reality. The forms, accordingly, whereby technological artefacts become involved in local contexts do not depend, at least not predominantly, on the properties of these artefacts. They emerge rather during the process of local implementation, as the functionalities of technologies are negotiated, shaped, bypassed or undermined in situ.1

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